Back when I was a baby queer in the early 2000s, “ The L Word” was pretty much all I had to see parts of my experience on TV, save for the rare gay subplots of popular teen shows - never forget Marissa’s brief but extremely hot dalliance with Olivia Wilde on “The O.C.” The stereotyped gays of “Sex and the City” and “Will and Grace” were replaced over the years by more fleshed out and nuanced queer characters across the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and, finally, we’ve seen some actually well-written trans characters played by trans performers.
Queer representation on the small screen has certainly come a long way over the past two decades, not only in terms of quality but also quantity.
